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From: Holger Hellmuth <hellmuth@ira.uka.de>
Subject: Re: Push from specific directory.
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On 23.03.2012 16:30, Neal Kreitzinger wrote:

> You would want to setup the gitignore before doing the init.

Why that? "git init" doesn't add any files, the repo is still empty.

I would even say "git init" helps because you get a comprehensive list 
of non-ignored files with "git status" and can sift through that list 
for files you want to be ignored